Best Tripods for Your Budget & The Academy's Surprise President [PODCAST]

This episode of Indie Film Weekly reveals our favorite sub-$1200 tripod, and some strangely familiar developments at The Academy.

Jon Fusco, Emily Buder, and yours truly, Liz Norddiscuss two new and very different industry studies: one about the use of swear words in movies, and the other about the future of the documentary film industry. We also talk about the new President of the Academy of Motion Pictures, updates from the Locarno, TIFF and NYFF festivals, and Netflix’s first acquisition of another company.

Charles Haine joins us for gear news, including the Panasonic EVA-1 specs and an embarrassing moment for Apple. Charles also answers an Ask No Film School question about how to assess and buy tripods in a range of budgets.

As always, the show also brings news you can use about gear, upcoming grant and festival deadlines, this week’s indie film releases, industry words of wisdom, and other notable things you might have missed while you were busy making films.

Listen to the episode by streaming or downloading from the embedded player above, or find on iTunes here.

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